The Timeless Dimension of God’s Immediacy

John 17:23 I in them, and Thou in me, that they may be perfected into one, and that the world may know that Thou didst send me, and didst love them as Thou didst love me.

“And didst love them” is in the timeless aorist tense.

The aorist tense is also called the “timeless aorist” or the “aorist of immediate consequences.’ The aorist tense has the element of timelessness. The dimension of time does not exist. Therefore, in faith, what is believed for in accordance to voice simultaneously coincides with, and occurs upon the very exact moment that God gave it to us. Our asking and the giving by God is one in the same. This is the timelessness and immediate consequence of the aorist tense.

So the love of God for people is immediate and beyond the dimension of time. God has loved, loves and will always love.

John 17:21 that they all may be one, as Thou Father art in me, and I in Thee; that they also in us may be one, that the world may believe that Thou didst send me.

John 17:22 ‘And I, the glory that thou hast given to me, have given to them, that they may be one as we are one;

The glory of Jesus is a state of the glorification which Jesus enjoyed in His pre incarnate existence. The actualization of this state He gives to those who follow Him, as a principle or law which allows the same glorification to become a reality in them. These are some of claims made by the historical Jesus which are worthy of scrutinizing.

23 I in them, and Thou in me, that they may be perfected into one, and that the world may know that Thou didst send me, and didst love them as Thou didst love me.

The zenith of working in the fullness of God’s glory is to have a revelation of the union of the love relationship between the Father and the Son manifested in me.

The actualization of the union of the love relationship between the Father and the Son can only come when it’s manifested through human beings.

I am simply a shell, a vessel, for this glory to be manifested. I am dead. The I in me is Christ Jesus who reveals this ongoing relationship in me and trough me. That is my purpose on earth.

Matthew 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you (I with you am (present tense) alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

The fullness of the essence of God in Christ as “I AM” is always found in the present and immediate tense. God supersedes the dimension of time. As with faith, in ministry, God’s power will not be sent to us in the future. His healing will not take place in the future. His fire will not be poured out upon us in the future. At the moment that He reveals that these things are for us in a ministry situation they are forevermore and immediately there. We must know that we live with God in a timeless dimension where everything is in THE IMMEDIACY OF THE NOW.

John 8:42 Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth (God is Christ’s energy/ fuel source; God is the world in which Christ operates; and God Himself does the work through Christ, in Christ’s ministry) and came (Defined as :”Arrival” Christ is in a continuing and continual state of arrival ) from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.

“Came” – This uncommon word describes to come in its dimension of arriving or arrival. Christ has arrived from God into our world, or more correctly because it is in the present tense, Christ is in a continuing state of arrival, confirming the timeless immediacy of the continual now of His presence. It is imperative that we ask God to deliver us into His world of the dimensionless- ness of time. As long as see God as doing things for us in the future we will never operate in miracles.

John 14:10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.

Greek: The Father in me continually abiding, He habitually; or He out of His habit, from moment to moment does the works. The father’s habit is to always instrumentally perform His works. The more that we live in the world of the Father the more that we will see the Father work back through us, for this is His normal habit.

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2 thoughts on “The Timeless Dimension of God’s Immediacy”

I enjoyed this post; you are always pushing the envelope in exegesis and I appreciate that about your writing. However, the context of the verses you quoted in John, for me anyway, are directed to the church. It is a call and a prayer to be unified for the purpose of the gospel. Unity=proof of Christ’s reality as the messiah and His mission; Unity=His glory will be manifested to the unified church. I use these verses quite often to remind people that a unified church in love and “bearing with one another in love” is paramount to completing our God-ordained mission as His body.
I ask my Christian friends: “Since when does the Father not answer the prayer of the Son?”…the reply is, “Well, never…the Father (one assumes) hears and answers the Son’s prayers.” The issue is that ever since the ascension, the body has been fractured; even in the early church, Paul is constantly correcting and exhorting the churches to be unified and that divisions are carnal. This is what gives me hope that the future of the church rests solidly in this prayer of Christ!
I did not hear you touch on this point; maybe you should consider taking your line of reasoning down that path? For we all know that “a divided house cannot stand”…
Be blessed and may the Lord continue to direct your paths,
gideon